Clothes-line-extension device.



H. F. MAYNES.

CLOTHES LINE EXTENSION DEVICE.

APPLICATION IILEDDBO. 7, 1908.

Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

INVENTOR WITNESSES HYLA F. MAYNES, OF GAINES, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-LINE-EXTENSION DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 7, 1908. Serial No. 486,392.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, HYLA F, MAYNES, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Gaines, county of Tioga, and State ofPennsylvania, have invented cer- 'tain new and useful Improvements inClothes Line Extension Devices, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part thereof.

My invention relates to improvements 1D extension devices for clotheslines of the intermediate type in which a portion of a clothes linewhich is normally located on the outside of a building may be drawn intoa room through the window thereof, so that the clothes line may bemanipulated, and the' clothes hung thereon and removed therefrom, withina. room thereby avoiding the necessity of the operator leaning out ofthe Wll'ldOW.

The main object of my invention is to provide an extension device suchas will permit the free use of the clothes line in any of its positions,as when fully extended or when in its extreme oppositeposltion or m anyosition, and also to provide that there sha l be no substantial movementof the main body portion of the clothes line when the extension deviceis manipulated.

In order that-my invention may be fully understood, I will now proceedto describe an embodiment thereof, havin reference to the accompanyingdrawings il ustratin the same, and will then point out the nove featuresin claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing a clothesline extension device embodying my invention, the samebeing illustratedas attached to a bnilding, and adjusted to a position part1 w1th1n aroom thereof. Fig. 2 1s a simi ar view showing the extension device asadjusted to a position wholly without the building. Fig. 3 1s a top viewof the extension device, and Fig. 4 a detail view in transverse sectionupon the plane of the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

1 with a slot or The extension device comprises, in general, a slide 10having pulleys 11-12 at op: posite ends thereof, a guide 13 providedide-way in which the slide is mounted, an a relatively stationary pul-.ley 14 mounted u on a fixed s u port, referably upon the. side of thegul e,-ass own in the drawings. The axes of'the pulleys 11,12, and 14are parallel with-each other and those of the pulleys 11 and 12 arearranged in a single horizontal plane parallel with the slide 10. Theaxis of the pulley 14 is also preferably in the same plane, but

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thereof. Preferably the guide and bracket are connected together bymeans of a vertical pivot pin 20 whereby the said guide may be swunghorizontally about the said pivot, notches or teeth 21 being providedfor the purpose of preventin such movement except when desired. ien itis desired to make an adjustment, a nut 22 upon the central pivot 'pinmay be slackenedand the parts properly adjusted, and thereafter upon thetightening of the nut, furthermovement will be prevented.

The normal position of the device is shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.When it is desired to manipulate the line from within the building 18,the window 19 having been opened, the operator draws the slide 10 intothe room; this may readily be done by grasp- -ing a hand piece 23 whichis provided for the purpose. In Fig. 2, I have shown the slide aspartially drawn into the room and the clothes line may be manipulatedfrom such position or the slide may be drawn all the way in, ifpreferred. When the slide has been properly adjusted, the clothes lineis manipulated from the lower strand thereof, the c othes being hungthereon within the building and then "the line caused to travel in adirection'to carry the clothes out of the window, all in a manner whichwill be readil understood by reference to the drawings, Snnilarly theclothesmay be drawn into the room by pulling upon the lower strand ofthe rope, and the clothesthen removed from ,the line at a oint withinthe building. It will be noticed that the manipulation of the slide inno way affectsthe gosition of the' body ortion of the line nor cos itproduce any s ack in the line because, while one portion of the linebeing paid off at one end,

an equal portion of the line is being picked up at the other endthereof, and it Wlll. also be .readily understood that the tension uponaxes of the two pulleys 11 and 12in the same horizontal plane the ropemay be so disposed as to largely reduce the tendenc of the slide to tipw en the rope is pulle and consequently the slide Wlll have lesstendency to bind in the guide than might otherwise be the case. In orderto take the weight off the extension device when it is to bemanipulated, I have provided a hook 24 for temporarily supporting theclothes line at that point if such be desired. Under ordinarycircumstances this hook is not necessary, but where the line is of greatlength and the slide of considerable length with relation to the guidein which it is carried, the use of such a' tension supporting devicemight be advantageous; at no times would it be necessary, however, touse such a hook except while the slideis actually being moved. I haveshown this hook as located upon the guide iece 13 itself, and in orderto make the guide piece suitable for use at either the right or lefthand side of the window, I have provided a second hook 24 upon theopposite side of the guide piece so that such hook may be in properposition for use for the aforesaid purpose should the guide piece beinverted. I have shown the slide 10 as I-sha'ped in cross section, butit is of course obvious that other shapes may be employed. What I claimis: 1. A clothes line extension device comprising a guide, a slidearranged to move longitudinally through the said guide, pulleys carriedby the said .slide at opposite ends thereof, the axes of the saidpulleys being parallel and lying in'a single plane parallel with theslide, whereby a portion of the clothes line in passing over the samesideof the. said pulleys will lie in a line parallel with the saidplane, and a relatively stationary pulley located intermediate thepulleys carried by the slide.

2. A clothes line extension device comprising a guide, a slide arrangedto move longitudinally through the said guide, pulleys carried by thesaid slide atopposite ends thereof, the axes of the said pulleys beingparallel and lying in a single plane parallel .with the slide, andastationary pulley carried by the said guide, the axis thereof lying inthe same plane with the first said pulleys.

D. HOWARD HAYWOOD, LY AN S. ANDREWS, Jr.

